The phrase "a powerful driver for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a significant factor or influence that motivates or propels a particular action or outcome.
Example: "Innovation has become a powerful driver for economic growth in the technology sector."
Alternatives: "a significant catalyst for" or "a major force behind".
Stronger business (coupled with innovation) is a powerful driver for peace.
The world of wireless data is poised to create a proliferation of hand-held gadgets that could be a powerful driver for Silicon Valley.
Lack of space on the hospital's cramped main site has proved a powerful driver for the Christie in thinking about off-premises options for treatment.
Such a financial kickstart to a fledgling industry, coupled with the third great gift of Apollo – inspiration – would prove to be a powerful driver for social change in the decades that followed.
Neuroscientists believe that overoptimism is based on biased information processing in the brain, which makes it difficult to correct overly rosy expectations in the young (this bias might actually be evolutionary efficient, as a powerful driver for seeking progress).
"That is such a powerful driver for people who feel very despairing".
They argue that this would be a powerful driver of demand for computers, software and online services.It was only after the Internet bubble popped and the technology industry went into recession, however, that companies really started pushing the issue.
Social computing like the Internet on which it rides will remain a powerful driver of wealth creation for many years ahead.
"These remarkable achievements mark a sixth straight year of industry milestones, reaffirming tourism as a powerful driver of economic growth for Los Angeles," said Ernest Wooden Jr., chief executive of the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
Goldman Sachs recently raised its profit forecast for these and similar firms, predicting that "China will remain a powerful driver of global demand growth for many commodities in 2004 and beyond".True, not everyone is happy.
Still, regardless of who or what is choosing the stories in Apple News, if the app becomes a powerful driver of traffic and advertising revenues for publishers, expect more scrutiny of the editorial choices being made – and of whether there is a knock-on "chilling effect" on publishers deciding whether to run a story criticising Apple.
